Odd Jobs?

ODD JOBS?
If you are over 50 and have small odd jobs which need doing but you find it difficult to do, the Age Concern Havering have volunteers who can help. For more information please contact Ken Miller on 01708 479868 at Age Concern Havering on WEDNESDAYS between 10.30am and 2pm. As the group are a charity they do ask for a small donation for the work, depending upon the size of the job.

CAN WE HELP?
Do please contact us if there are any environmental issues in your street or other broader issues relating to facilities in Romford or Hornchurch which you would like us to raise. We can be contacted by email on wendy.bricethompson@havering.gov.uk, andrew.curtin@havering.gov.uk and frederick.thompson@havering.gov.uk , or using the telephone numbers on this newsletter. We also have a Facebook site which can be found through Google (search) Romford Town Ward News.

Carepoint

CAREPOINT SPECIALIST SURGERIES
Carepoint, at 36 High Street, offer the following specialist surgeries for people looking for information about adult health and social care;

• Royal Association for Deaf People. First Tuesday of the month. 10am-4pm.
• Age Concern Havering Dementia Service. Second Tuesday of the month. 2pm-4pm.
• Papworth Trust (support for people with a wide range of disabilities). Every other Wednesday. 10am-12noon.
• Alzheimer’s Society. First Friday of the month. 12-3.30pm.

For more information either visit the centre, or phone 01708 752435, email info@haveringcarepoint.org, or visit the website http://www.haveringcarepoint.org.

Help not Hospital

HELP NOT HOSPITAL
This is a new scheme run by the British Red Cross, which aims to provide time-limited support to people after a personal crisis or illness, giving them the confidence and independence to continue with daily life. It helps people with things like essential shopping, collecting prescriptions, light housework or just general conversation and companionship to make it easier for people to be at home after a difficult time. If you know someone who you think could benefit from this very important service, please contact HnH@redcross.org.uk. Alternatively people can be referred in to it by their GP, other health professional, carer or social worker.

                  At St Edward's Church in the market place today to support their Christmas Fayre.                   This is Elaine, doing the tombola!

VICTORIA ROAD
It is hoped that an application can be made to the organisation Transport for London for funding to make environmental and car-parking improvements in Victoria Road inside the ring road, and consultation has been ongoing with businesses and residents in the area about how best this could be done. Many thanks to the resident who reported the loose hoarding on the approach to the railway bridge near where Salisbury Forge used to be. We reported the matter urgently to Network Rail.
SUPPORTING OUR ARMED FORCES
Havering Council and a number of other local organisations have signed the Armed Forces Community Covenant to promote public understanding and awareness of the issues affecting the Armed Forces Community in the borough and to help the Armed Forces achieve wider community engagement here. For more information on the covenant please see the Ministry of Defence website.

Christmas lights

Lights fantastic

Families turned out in their thousands for this year’s Christmas Lights Switch-on at Romford Market, last night (Thursday 15 November). Postman Pat® and Jess the Cat, along with Twist and Pulse, Hope Murphy, and Santa headlined the fun night of entertainment, which ended with a firework finale.

HAVERING MUSEUM
Havering Museum in the High Street, which is run by the independent local charity Havering Museum Ltd., has launched a new Variety Club with activities specifically aimed at people over 50. Events take place fortnightly on Wednesdays and Thursdays and offer events such as musical quizzes, looking at the artefacts in the museum and photography groups. The scheme is a partnership between the museum, Havering Council and Age Concern. If you are interested in joining, please telephone Ellen Owen from the museum on 01708 766571. Help is available for people who are housebound and need transport to get to the museum. To arrange this please contact Stephen Bynon on 01708 796602. More information about the museum, exhibitions and children’s activities is available on the museum website http://www.havering.museum.org.uk

Pedestian crossing

JUNCTION ROAD
Many thanks to all residents who responded to the recent consultation on the best location for a zebra crossing in Junction Road. Residents seemed unanimous in agreeing that the part of the road from Longdon Court to Western Road Medical Centre would be the best location for it, as it will improve access to the doctors, and so the Council has agreed that this is where it will be placed.

Conservation

NATURE CONSERVATION
Increases in the number of species of butterflies, moths and song birds have been recorded in the borough recently, including the Small Heath Butterfly, Small Skipper Butterfly, Six Spot Burnett Moth, Goldfinch and Greenfinch. Havering has won the "London in Bloom" award for work that the Council and other nature conservation groups do for Biodiversity in the borough for the second year running. This is the first time that a borough has won the award in two consecutive years. A number of measures have been taken to increase and improve natural habitats in the borough over recent years, including the introduction of meadow areas at Cottons Park, Lodge Farm Park, Raphael Park and better use of planting at roundabouts such as at North Street and Oldchurch Road. This has contributed to an increase in a number of plants which are important food sources for insects and birds, including Cuckoo Flower, Birdsfoot Trefoil and White Clover (which is a favourite plant of bees).

Crossrail

ROMFORD STATION
The Crossrail project aims to improve rail links in London and the south east, and to improve access to rail stations for people with disabilities, among others. Much work is currently being done on the project in central London. Eventually Crossrail will involve Romford station and we have been lobbying the organisation, highlighting the poor passenger environment in the station lobby and entering the station from the street, in the hope that they will be able to make progress on these issues as part of their work. For more information on Crossrail please see http://www.crossrail.co.uk.

HM Armed Forces

Hundreds of people lined the streets of Romford yesterday to welcome home the soldiers of the 1st Battalion The Royal Anglian Regiment.

It was the second of five homecoming parades taking place this week to mark the Battalion’s return to the UK having completed a six-month tour in Afghanistan.

Andrew Rosindell M.P. is today celebrating the historic occasion of the flying of the flags of the British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies in Parliament Square, London.

The flags were flying today for the first time ever, Thursday 1^st November 2012, for the State visit of the President of Indonesia to the United Kingdom.

Her Majesty’s Government has taken the decision to fly the flags of all the Territories and Dependencies for every State Visit in future and for Trooping The Colour, following years of campaigning to give them recognition by Andrew Rosindell M.P., supported by the Overseas Territories All Party Parliamentary Group and the Flags & Heraldry All Party Parliamentary Group, both of which he is Chairman.

Andrew has publicly thanked former Overseas Territories Minister, Henry Bellingham M.P. for his support and for ensuring that despite the bureaucratic hurdles, the flags were eventually flown for the Diamond Jubilee year of Her Majesty The Queen.

For further information, please contact Andrew Rosindell M.P. on (07880) 720864 orStarbuck Coleman, Clerk to the Overseas Territories A.P.P.G. on (07956) 252250.

Andrew Rosindell M.P.

Chairman, British Overseas Territories All Party Parliamentary Group

c/o Room 327/328, House of Commons, LONDON, SW1A 2AA

Telephone: 0207-219-8475   Fax: 0207-219-1960

e-mail: andrew@rosindell.com

Andrew Rosindell M.P.
Chairman

United Kingdom-Isle of Man (British-Manx) All Party Parliamentary Group

Room 327/328, House of Commons, LONDON, SW1A 2AA

Telephone: 0207-219-8475   Fax: 0207-219-1960

e-mail: andrew@rosindell.com

   

Andrew Rosindell M.P.
Vice-Chairman 

Channel Islands All Party Parliamentary Group

      

Room 327/328, House of Commons, LONDON, SW1A 2AA

Telephone: 0207-219-8475   Fax: 0207-219-1960

e-mail: andrew@rosindell.com

Andrew Rosindell M.P.

Member of Parliament for Romford

House of Commons

London

SW1A 0AA

( 0207-219-8475 or 8499

Fax: 0207-219-1960

e-mail: andrew@rosindell.com

www.andrew.rosindell.com

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Here's an update on the Ardleigh Green Road crash.

UPDATE: Up to five in hospital following Hornchurch crash involving three cars, college minibus and.

www.romfordrecorder.co.uk

The A127 has been shut in both directions and up to five people taken to hospital after a crash involving several cars, a lorry and a van in Hornchurch this afternoon (Thursday).